Now that I have some quality equipment, I am running into a few problems. My main one now is sibilence..

What can you do to remove sibilence, yet keep presence? Every time I pull out the overpowering "esses' and "tees", the vocals lose their presence.

What is the *right* way to go around this, without cheating.. (by cheating I mean exciters and other stupid plugins that fix mixing mistakes)

And BlueBear, I read your article many times over, but I need more in depth mixing solutions now.

EDIT: Here is a snippet to listen to hear what I mean... I know it sounds hollow atm, and that is because I was trying to pull out the sibilence.

www.dr-code.org/SibilenceSucks.mp3

RhoneRanger wrote:

Now that I have some quality equipment, I am running into a few problems. My main one now is sibilence.. What can you do to remove sibilence, yet keep presence? Every time I pull out the overpowering "esses' and "tees", the vocals lose their presence. What is the *right* way to go around this, without cheating.. (by cheating I mean exciters and other stupid plugins that fix mixing mistakes) And BlueBear, I read your article many times over, but I need more in depth mixing solutions now. EDIT: Here is a snippet to listen to hear what I mean... I know it sounds hollow atm, and that is because I was trying to pull out the sibilence. www.dr-code.org/SibilenceSucks.mp3

Sibilance is typically (in my hands) delt with by using a De-Esser.

A de-esser can be a compressor with an EQ unit in the side chain where the sibilant frequencies are boosted in order to compress them more than the wanted signal - thus reducing them.
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OOH never thought of that one.. thanks for the tip!